Well actually I got back late thursday night and Im just now getting around to posting the pics. If you dont like seeing pics of a dead elk or me skinning and quartering it up this thread isnt for you. Anyway, I took tons and tons of pictures, NM is very beautiful in its own way. Southern and SE NM is pretty damn boring but northern NM is very pretty. I left Austin early thursday morning and headed to Hobbs NM to meet up with my dad then we headed on up to Cuba NM after having a blowout on the trailer just outside of Roswell but we got new tires all the way around on it and did fine for the rest of the trip at speeds up to 85.

Right before I left, had to take teh jeep out for some final tests after isntalling all the goodies

Wind farms


My copilot Smokey

Roswell

relaxing on top of all stuff

Entering the the big city of Cuba, NM

Random pics


One of the river beds we hunted pretty hard that had quite a bit of elk traffic crossing

Toating the 4wheeler out to do some scouting and a cool background

After one of the morning hunts

Old house built in the 1800s, Im a geek about old buildings I have about 100 pics between the two houses

Amazing how they built stuff back then

 

Another house small *** doors, Im only 6'

Someone had to hand shape these planks

My dad caught me sleeping, oops

BLACK sand hills

Whole lotta nothin heading towards Farmington, NM, we were literally 45 minutes from the four corners, but we just didnt have time to go out there and make it back for the evening hunt which was a good thing because thats the evening hunt I got my elk

320#s field dressed out, not a big one but big enough for two guys trying to throw it on the rack

Not bad shot placement for a 365yd shot when she was in a dead run because my dad scared her, two other cows and a bull up after he dropped me off. I was a bit surprised I hit her to be honest but I guess all those countless hours at the gun range paid off.

Skin'n her out


Something Ive never seen before in all my years of hunting a double knee
Good leg

bad leg

 

Loadin up getting ready to head back to Texas

Continental divide


Cool looking bluff

Eastern NM sunset

Smokey trying to give my dad kisses

I had fun but damn it was good to be back in TX

For those that dont know me well, my last name is Hicks

Passed the hell out, starting to get the picture of how my dog is?

And last but not least what he does to windows, all my windows looked like that


The elk is at the processors right now getting made into sausage, steaks and roasts, the roast is going to make some damn good jerky I had a great time, and it was the first time in a long time my dad and I have been able to spend some good quality time with each other. I think we are going to start doing it every year

 

Man, that just looks like a lot of good times. Coppenhagen and Dr. Pepper.... that's you. Awesome pics and pm sent with my address for a few of them sausages!

 

looks like a blast!!!! someday ill do some elk hunting.

 

.300 win mag???

You bastard should have called me thats alot of open land to play with big calibers

Good looking elk looked like fun

 

Stereotype maybe? If it helps, I had my ariats on

I may have to pull one of my dads fifth wheel trailers out to Cali if he gets the job, if I head that way Ill bring some good Texas food with me.

 

300 WSM, with Leopold VX-L 3.5-10x56mm objective, badass shooting gun, next time I go up there Im taking my dads Weatherby 30-378, now that is badass shooting gun. 1000yd shot still carrying 1800 ft-lbs of knock down power anyone?

 

If you want i have my .338 lapua magnum wiht a Leupold Mark 4 or my armalite AR-50 with the same scope

.50 carries 3302ft/lbs at 1000yds that will knock the skin right off the elk lol

 

damn good pics, damn good shot on run that far out.. I am a freak about old buildings also, they looked like **** on the western films...

John